Art Museum Pablo Picasso Münster

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The Druffel'sche Hof with the Art Museum Pablo Picasso Münster at Picassoplatz 1, in October 2005

The Art Museum Pablo Picasso Münster (until September 2010 Graphics Museum Pablo Picasso Münster ) was opened in 2000 in the Westphalian city of Münster and houses lithographs and other holdings in various artistic techniques and from Pablo Picasso's various creative periods with over 800 exhibits.

Exhibitions

Various aspects and excerpts from this collection are exhibited in thematic alternation on around 600 square meters of exhibition space. In addition, special exhibitions with exhibits from international museums and collections are devoted not only to the life and work of Picasso, but also to that of his artist friends and contemporaries. In 2010 the museum celebrated its tenth anniversary with special exhibitions on Joan Miró , Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee .

  • 2000/01: Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum, Münster - The Huizinga Collection
  • 2001/02: Picasso's imaginary museum
  • 2002: Suite Vollard - Pictures of Olympus by the artist
  • 2002/03: Pablo Picasso - The time with Françoise Gilot
  • 2003: Augenlust - French painting books
  • 2003: Braque graphic work
  • 2003/04: Affichomania - poster mania
  • 2004/05: Antiquity in the mirror of modernity
  • 2005: Fernand Léger : Figure - Object | Object - figure
  • 2005/06: Penultimate Thoughts - Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline
  • 2006: Marc Chagall Collection CS, Paris
  • 2006/07: Braque - Miró - Picasso - The protagonists of modernity
  • 2007: The Musée Antibes visits Münster
  • 2007/08: Wh (h) re lies - original and forgery in dialogue
  • 2008/09: Marc Chagall - The painter at the window
  • 2009/10: From Degas to Picasso - The Jean Planque Collection
  • 2010: Joan Miró - The color of his dreams
  • 2010/11: Paul Klee . Graphics - works from the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
  • 2012: Eduardo Chillida
  • 2012/13: Marc Chagall and the Bible
  • 2013: The Picassos from Arles - a painter's diary
  • 2013: Willy Ronis : Retrospective.
  • 2013/14: Henri Matisse - Figure & Ornament
  • 2014/15: The seduction of the line - Klimt , Schiele , Kokoschka
  • 2015/16: Alberto Giacometti . Masterpieces from the Maeght Foundation
  • 2016: Le Corbusier . Drawing as a game
  • 2016/17: Henri Matisse . Make your hand sing
  • 2017: From Christ to Kiefer . The Lambert Collection, Avignon
  • 2017/18: The Impressionists in Normandy
  • 2018: Picasso - From the horrors of war to the dove of peace. (Works by Picasso, Tatjana Doll , Renata Jaworska , Dora Maar )

history

The Pablo Picasso Münster art museum is located at Picassoplatz 1 on Königsstraße, which used to be the most elegant street in the old town. The exhibition rooms are located in two historical buildings. The Druffel'sche Hof, built between 1784 and 1788, is one of the most important classicist buildings in the city. The facade of the former aristocratic court could be restored after the Second World War. The brick and sandstone house - typical of Münster's architecture - was connected to the neighboring Hensenbau in the course of the conversion to a museum at the end of the 1990s.

The Picasso collection was put together by the Westphalian Gert Huizinga (* August 7, 1927; † December 9, 2018). The graphic designer, who was a semester colleague of Horst Janssen and Paul Wunderlich at the State Art School in Hamburg , acquired his first Picasso, a linocut, in the early 1950s. Huizinga's acquaintance with Picasso's former partner Marie-Thérèse Walter led him to concentrate on collecting Picasso lithographs. Through the encounter and later friendship with Picasso's printer Fernand Mourlot in Paris, Gert Huizinga was able to win further works, especially very rare condition prints, for his collection in the 1970s. With the constant growth of the collection, the collector couple Jutta and Gert Huizinga thought of parting with their art treasure in order to make it accessible to a broader public. As a result of these considerations, the Sparkassenstiftung was finally brought into being, which is now supported by the Huizinga couple, the savings banks in Westphalia-Lippe of WestLB AG and the Westfälische Provinzial-Versicherungen .

For the tenth anniversary in September 2010, the museum was renamed from Graphikmuseum to the Pablo Picasso Art Museum in Münster, following a proposal by Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso. On the occasion of the anniversary, a new production of the Ballet Parade took place. Picasso had created the stage decorations and costumes for the premiere in 1917. The choreographer Claudine Merkel has redesigned the piece. The music for the new parade was written by the Münster composer Burkhard Fincke, the costumes by the designer Jean Malo. The oboist Stefanie Bloch from Münster accompanied the dancers.

collection

With the exception of a few sheets, the collection of the Picasso Museum includes the Spaniard's complete lithographic oeuvre, including prints of intermediate states and test prints. From 1945 onwards in particular, Picasso dealt intensively with the artistic and technical possibilities of lithography, which he implemented in close collaboration with the Parisian printer Fernand Mourlot. This printing technique enabled him to capture certain versions of his works during the creation process before further editing and changing them. In this way, the artist varied his subjects and motifs again and again, sometimes even over years. This is how many series came about. Thematically, the works in the Münster Picasso Museum range from portraits and still lifes to moving bullfighting scenes and ancient mythical creatures.

Vollard suite

From 1930 to 1937 Picasso created a series of one hundred prints, named after the Parisian publisher and art dealer Ambroise Vollard , who commissioned them from Pablo Picasso. Picasso varies different themes in the graphic suite, such as artists and models or the Minotaur myth. The Art Museum Pablo Picasso Münster was able to acquire the complete series of graphics in November 2001 on the international art market.

Georges Braque

At the beginning of March 2004, the Sparkasse Münsterland Ost donated 208 works by Georges Braque to the museum on permanent loan. Braque maintained an intensive artistic exchange with Pablo Picasso. Between 1907 and 1914, the two artist friends developed Cubism together . The collection shows a representative cross-section of the entire graphic work of Braque from 1926 until his death in 1963. The collection is characterized by a large number of unique items and artist's preferred prints and resembles the Picasso lithograph collection in its studio character. In contrast to Picasso's, Braque's prints are mostly colored. Five very rare ceramics and reliefs complete the collection.

French painting books

With the Classen Foundation, the collection was expanded again in 2004: The Essen couple Christa and Wolfgang Classen have collected a collection of French painter's books over decades . In its breadth, this collection of painters' books not only provides an overview of the development of the French “livre d'artiste” in the 20th century, but also represents the great artistic developments of the modern era. Works by Braque, Matisse and Picasso form the focus of the collection. Furthermore, Max Ernst's Une semaine de bonté with its hint of threatening visions collages , Aristide Maillol in his book graphic work and Henri Matisse with jazz represented.

Chagall Collection

At the end of April 2008, Sparkasse Münsterland Ost presented the museum with 137 graphics by the painter Marc Chagall on permanent loan. The collection is characterized by a large number of unique pieces and rare condition and test prints, which Chagall made in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. The lithographs and woodcuts were created in the Parisian printing house Mourlot, where Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque also worked. The graphic technique of lithography in Chagall's work spans a time span of over sixty creative years, in which he created a total of over a thousand lithographs.

Picasso's linocuts

In August 2012, the Picasso Museum was able to expand its collection again with the help of Sparkasse Münsterland Ost. 101 linocuts by Pablo Picasso went on permanent loan to the museum's holdings. The collection contains numerous condition and test prints, some of which have only been preserved in one or two copies. They give the works a specific “studio smell” and allow the viewer an intimate glimpse into the artist's work and way of thinking. Thematically, the linocuts created between 1954 and 1962 lead through a world of images typical of Picasso of bullfighting scenes, ancient representations and portraits.

Henri Matisse

Since the summer of 2015, the Picasso Museum has housed a graphic collection by Henri Matisse that is unique in Germany. The 121 works come from the artist's family and were also given to the museum on permanent loan by Sparkasse Münsterland Ost. The lithographs, linocuts and etchings in this collection cover the artist's last 45 years from 1906 to 1951.

literature

  • Markus Müller (Ed.): Pablo Picasso - The lithography. Graphics Museum Pablo Picasso Münster. The Huizinga Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit Hatje Cantz, 2000.
  • Markus Müller (Ed.): Picasso Suite Vollard. Graphics Museum Pablo Picasso Münster, 2002.
  • Markus Müller (Ed.): Matisse - Picasso. Your artistic dialogue in book illustrative work. Exhibition catalog for the exhibition in the Graphics Museum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster 2005
  • Markus Müller (Ed.): The French painter's book in the 20th century: the Classen collection in the Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Münster . Book trade edition: Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-2895-6
  • Markus Müller (Ed.): Georges Braque. Hirmer, Munich 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from the museum's website
  2. ↑ Bernd Aulich: The Graphic Museum in Münster is now called Kunstmuseum Picasso , www.nw-news.de, September 8, 2010, accessed on June 17, 2011
  3. ↑ Sabine Müller: With Picasso in Ballet , ruhrnachrichten.de, June 9, 2010, accessed on June 17, 2011 (no longer available online)

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